(30 Jun 2014, 5:32 pm)aureolin wrote Did you do there and back in the same day last year? Or overnight somewhere? It always feels like a canny long run, but its not much different to Newcastle - Blackpool, which I do there and back on a regular basis.
I went on the 0130am-ish Megabus down from Newcastle on a Wednesday, arriving at about 6am. Took some photos in London until about 9, then went to Brighton for a few hours. Returned to London, took some more photos for a few hours, then returned on the Megabus home at 3pm, arriving in at Sunderland at about half 9.
All in all, cost me less than £20.